Pore /(?)/

1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

imp. & p. p. Pored; p. pr. & vb. n. Poring

1. To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.

   The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing.